Broad Research Areas in PMRF

Civil Engineering, Earth Science, Architecture, Ocean and Naval Engineering (Coordinating Institute - IIT Bombay)
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Architecture & Planning: Architectural, building and climate science
Architecture & Planning: Interdisciplinary architecture and design
Architecture & Planning: Planning – Urban/Rural
Civil Engineering: Environmental engineering
Civil Engineering: Geospatial technology
Civil Engineering: Geotechnical Engineering
Civil Engineering: Structural engineering
Civil Engineering: Transportation engineering
Civil Engineering: Water resources engineering
Earth Sciences: Applied geology
Earth Sciences: Applied geophysics
Earth Sciences: Climate studies
Ocean Engineering: Coastal engineering
Ocean Engineering: Naval architecture
Ocean Engineering: Offshore engineering
Ocean Engineering: Petroleum engineering
Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Design (Coordinating Institute - IIT Delhi)
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Fluid Mechanics/Heat Transfer
Thermodynamics/Airconditioning & Refrigeration/Cryogenics
Experimental Methods in Engineering & Design
Computational & Higher Order Numerical Methods
Turbulence/Waves/Instabilities
Boiling/Condensation/Phase change
Microfluids/Nanofluids/Biofluids
Robotics & Automation
Solid Mechanics/Kinematics
Materials/Fracture mechanics
Aerodynamics/Hypersonic
Aeroacoustics/Structural Health Monitoring
Vibrations and control systems
Combustion and propulsion systems
Kinematics/Dynamics
Solid mechanics/Fracture mechanics
Materials/Tribology
Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering (Coordinating Institute - IIT Kanpur)
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Power Electronics and Drives (PED)
Image processing
High voltage in Electrical Engineering(HV)
Communication
Microelectronics
Instrumentation
Integrated Circuits
Signal processing
RF and Photonics
Power systems
Control Theory
Control
Neuromorphic computing
Hardware Security
Quantum Computing
Control System Applications
Electrical Machines
Power Electronic and Drives
High Voltage
Computer Science & Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics (Coordinating Institute - IIT Ropar)
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Mathematics
Computer Science - Theory
Computer Science - Systems
Data Science
Biomedical Engineering, Biological Sciences and Agricultural Sciences (Coordinating Institute - IIT Guwahati)
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Biomechanics
Neurosciences
Tissue engineering, biomaterials and regenerative medicine
Nanotechnology, nanomedicine and theranostics
Biotechnology
Genetics and epigenetics
Immunology
Computational biology, systems biology and bioinformatics
Cell biology
Microbiology
Molecular Biology, biochemistry and Enzymology
Cancer Biology
Developmental biology
Structural biology and protein engineering
Plant sciences
Biophysics
Ecology and evolution
Wildlife sciences, Aquaculture, & Fishery Sciences
Food Technology
Environmental Sciences
Bioprocess Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Textile Engineering (Coordinating Institute - IIT Kharagpur)
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Chemical Engineering: Heterogeneous Catalysis, reaction engineering
Chemical Engineering: Molecular simulation and modeling, CFD, process control and instrumentation
Chemical Engineering: Fuel cell, energy storage, hydrogen production, petroleum engineering
Chemical Engineering: Wastewater treatment, environmental engineering
Chemical Engineering: Electrochemical engineering, corrosion
Chemical Engineering: Fluid mechanics, rheology
Chemical Engineering: Heat transfer and thermodynamics
Chemical Engineering: Mass transfer, membrane, separation processes
Chemical Engineering: Biomedical application, point of care device
Chemical Engineering: Food science and technology, smart packaging
Chemical Engineering: Carbon capture
Chemical Engineering: Fluids and transport including CFD
Chemical Engineering: Catalysis and materials research
Chemical Engineering: Energy and environmental engineering
Chemical Engineering: Thermodynamics, molecular simulations and molecular phenomena
Chemical Engineering: Systems engineering, optimization and control
Chemical Engineering: Biological, biochemical and bioprocess engineering
Textile Engineering: Natural fibre composite, electrospun nanofibre, Polymeric Nanocomposites
Textile Engineering: Yarn engineering
Textile Engineering: Fibre science and technology
Textile Engineering: Nanocoating, nanomaterials for textile
Textile Engineering: Apparel Engineering
Textile Engineering: Garment Technology
Textile Engineering: Smart textile, phase change materials for hest storage
Textile Engineering: Nonwoven and Technical Textiles
Textile Engineering: Yarn and Fabric Production
Textile Engineering: Medical Textiles
Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Mining Engineering (Coordinating Institute - IIT Indore)
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Mechanical behaviour of materials and working
Physical metallurgy (Alloys/materials development and materials characterization
Electronic materials, devices and batteries
Extractive metallurgy of ferrous and nonferrous metals/alloys and continuous casting
Chemical Engineering: Electrochemical engineering, corrosion
Modeling/Simulation/machine learning related to materials
Corrosion and environmental degradation, wear and surface modification
Materials processing/advance materials manufacturing/Joining/Casting
Biomaterials
Mining
Physics (Coordinating Institute - University of Hyderabad)
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Optics Experiment and Theory: Nonlinear Optics, Fibre Optics, Quantum Optics, Laser Physics
Condensed Matter Experiment: Magnetism, Superconductivity, Multiferoics, Topological Materials, Graphene
Condensed Matter Theory: Magnetism, Superconductivity, Topological phases, Transport, Graphene
Statistical physics, Complex systems, Chaos, Nonlinear Dynamics, Quantum Thermodynamics, Quantum Information
Soft matter physics, Biological Physics, Active Matter
High Energy Physics Experiment and Theory: Particle phenomenology, Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Mathematical Physics
Chemistry (Coordinating Institute - IISER Pune)
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Theoretical & Computational Chemistry
Spectroscopy/Photochemistry
Thermodynamics/Kinetics/Electrochemistry/ other areas of Physical Chemistry
Solid State Chemistry
Coordination /Organometallic Chemistry/Bio-Inorganic Chemistry
Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Physico-organic Chemistry/Bio-Organic Chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Organometallic Chemistry
Bio-Inorganic Chemistry
Main Group Chemistry
Homogeneous/Heterogenous Catalysis
Macromolecules
Coordination Chemistry
Transition metal Chemistry
Other areas of Inorganic Chemistry
Thermodynamics
Kinetics
Electrochemistry
Batteries, Supercapacitors
Other areas of Physical Chemistry
Nanomaterials
Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics
Polymers
Other areas of Material Chemistry
Energy
Sensors
Environmental Chemistry
Polymer Chemistry
Biophysical Chemistry
Supramolecular Chemistry
Biochemistry and biotechnology
Medicinal Chemistry
System Chemistry
Interdisciplinary areas in Science and Engineering (Coordinating Institute - IISc Bangalore)
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Analytics & Data Mining
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) & Molecular Dynamics
Energy, Environment, & Process Safety
Human-Computer Interaction (e.g., e-Learning & Image processing)
Microfluidics, Nanofluidics & Transport Processes
Operations & Supply Chain Management
Soft Computing & Control Engineering
Wastewater Treatment & Membrane Separation
Molecular Dynamics
Biotechnology, Bioengineering and Biomedical devices
Quantitative finance, Fintech quantitative finance, Fintech
HPC (High performance computing) methods in Computational Science